Diary

Muhammad Raafi Route to Pahalgam never stops fascinating you. It is not only ‘picture perfect’, but equally intriguing, making one feel: whether it is meeting...

By Tabish Rafiq Mir Streetlights and supermarkets, shopping malls and ships, traffic lights and terraces, autos with meters and buses with tickets (and not sprouting...

Sameer Yasir                             Outside the Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, the rain drops falling on the gigantic statute of Buddha...

By: Shams Irfan As the airbus began to descend towards Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport, a mélange of hues: green, neon, grey, blue and red, started to...

by Syed Shujaat Bukhari Located at a distance of 180 kilometres from both Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, and Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu...

Syed Shujaat Bukhari
In Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK), one comes across a strange emotional bonding the people have with our part of Jammu and Kashmir. Generally referred to as “Occupied Kashmir” (Maqbooza Kashmir), they are in love with its beauty to an unimaginable limit. A few years back, I was in Central Asia.

The ground realities could be hugely different from what the TV cameras record. Masood Hussain details his first-hand account about a gun battle in...

It was emotional return for the great grandson of Mistri Yaqoob Ali, one of the top leaders of the then Muslim Conference, to Jammu...

by Masood Hussain A Great Man By around 2 am, a car is in great speed comes to a grinding halt at the main gate...

Khalid Bashir Ahmad After graduating with Honours in Political Science from SP College in 1975, I joined Aligarh Muslim University for Masters in Sociology but...

by Tasavur Mushtaq With each passing day, Kashmir is witnessing an increase in social crimes, particularly those against women and the elderly. If instances are...

Aadil Habib Bhat  It is our pre-final year (3rd) in Punjab Institute Of Engineering & Applied Research, located at, Malakpur Lalru Mandi Distt: Mohali Punjab,...

by Tasavur Mushtaq The ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Ramzan is a month of reverence. Treasured as one of the five pillars of Islam,...

Wreaking havoc in south and unleashing hell in centre, the history’s worst flood forced thousands to take refuge in upper reaches. Zawoora, a hilly...